Economics Express: Financial Markets and Institutions
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2013
408 pages
978-0-273-77609-3 (ISBN)
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Economics Express: Financial Markets and Institutions
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08/2013
Pearson Education Limited
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· Dr Robert Webb is the Head of Department and Director of Caledonian Business School's postgraduate programmes. His main areas of research are financial institution performance and applied economics where he has published widely in international research journals, book chapters and acted as a consultant - most recently at the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Scotland.
· He is an experienced teacher and author, who understands well where and how students struggle when tackling this subject
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction - Economic Express series
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The financial system
- 2 General characteristics and pricing of financial securities
- 3 Interest rate dynamics
- 4 Risky assets, diversification and the market model
- 5 The operation of the money markets
- 6 The operation of the capital markets - the stock market
- 7 The bond market
- 8 Derivatives - forwards, futures and swaps
- 9 Derivatives - options
- 10 The central bank, money and the money supply
- 11 Banking
- 12 Other financial institutions
- And finally, before the assessment . . .
- Glossary
- Index
